The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subjected to the most serious types of enhanced procedures.


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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Je...
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When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour...
BRENNAN MANNING
For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and rec...
BRENNAN MANNING
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, ou...
BRENNAN MANNING
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
BRENNAN MANNING
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence fo...
BRENNAN MANNING
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any c...
BRENNAN MANNING
When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour...
BRENNAN MANNING
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
BRENNAN MANNING
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are ...
BRENNAN MANNING
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.
BRENNAN MANNING
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and ac...
BRENNAN MANNING
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God...
BRENNAN MANNING
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awak...
BRENNAN MANNING
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true s...
BRENNAN MANNING
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit with...
BRENNAN MANNING
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...
BRENNAN MANNING
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdainin...
BRENNAN MANNING
The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba’...
BRENNAN MANNING
[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dom...
BRENNAN MANNING
We're looking forward to another good season.
BARBARA BRENNAN
We've talked about it,
BARBARA BRENNAN
We had six, lost three, then gained three, and have six again. We have a nice group. Annmarie, Kathy...
BARBARA BRENNAN
He's always been a good shooter. Nobody knew about him and I'm sure these guys didn't. I knew they w...
RICH BRENNAN
I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization."
There is a proverb...
MARIE BRENNAN
Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people sta...
BRENNAN MANNING
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
BRENNAN MANNING
The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better ...
BRENNAN MANNING
We were excited to go to Nashville because it came down to Nashville or San Francisco and either pla...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT
That facility is in dire need of some cosmetic and functional upgrades.
KEN BRENNAN
My Aunt Ella and my mom have informed me that we are going to rebuild. And because they are the matr...
BRAD BRENNAN
We're trying to get the investigation wrapped up. Obviously, it's a horrible and tragic situation fo...
DAVE BRENNAN
confirms our belief that the rangers' actions were justified.
DAVE BRENNAN
It reminds me of that dog that's always gnawing at you. They chase the postman.
SEAN BRENNAN
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
BRENNAN MANNING
It's a reality. This team runs the ball very well, and they have the right personnel for the system ...
BRENNAN SCHMIDT
I haven't yet heard of a hookah lounge opening and going out of business.
BRENNAN APPEL
It's at its largest demand ever in this country. I don't think it's going away any time soon. There'...
BRENNAN APPEL
It?s at its largest demand ever in this country. I don?t think it?s going away anytime soon.
BRENNAN APPEL
The market now is more healthy than it was during the frenzied phase.
PAUL BRENNAN
The Torch Drive is one of the key activities that gets individuals to come together to generate reso...
MICHAEL BRENNAN
The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

Fire of love, crazy over what You have...
BRENNAN MANNING
The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical sp...
BRENNAN MANNING
I'd love to give each of (the receivers) the same number of throws, but I have to go through my read...
COLT BRENNAN
Nobody said it's easy being a walk-on. Maybe next time I'll park next to coach (June) Jones. I don't...
COLT BRENNAN
We've got guys who can fill in, it's just getting the guys in there and getting them reps and gettin...
COLT BRENNAN
If you go to Hawaii, I'll guarantee I'll be there.
COLT BRENNAN
For us, it's like getting ready for what we got ready for a couple of weeks ago.
COLT BRENNAN
Coach (Jones) drew it up for us all week. He said, 'This is how it would be,' and it was. It was awe...
COLT BRENNAN
You watch film and you see mistakes and you learn from it. I think we have a good offense.
COLT BRENNAN
This was like our birthday. Before the game, we said, 'It starts from today.' We came here with a pu...
COLT BRENNAN